{"id":19285,"date":"2012-01-12T15:23:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T06:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kyokushinkaikan-demo-org.check-xserver.jp\/en\/2012\/01\/12\/_2012\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T06:23:52","slug":"_2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/news\/19285\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2012 Kagami-Biraki (Traditional New Year&#8217;s Training)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"0111aaa.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kyokushinkaikan.org\/ja\/news\/assets_c\/2012\/01\/0111aaa-thumb-600x254-1718.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"254\" \/> <br \/>Kancho Matsui, BC&#8217;s and participants at the 2012 Kagami-Biraki (traditional new year&#8217;s training) <\/p>\n<p>The 2012 Kagami-Biraki (traditional new year&#8217;s training) was held at the Metropolitan Hotel in Ikebukuro, Tokyo on January 11th.The Kagami-Biraki started from 6:30am and 150 members including, Kancho Shokei Matsui, Shihan Goda, Yamada, Take, Kawabata and BC&#8217;s, dojo operators, instructors and members participated. Participants took part in the traditional New Year&#8217;s training and made a fresh start to the New Year. Kihon (basic) and strengthening training lasted for an hour. The first training of the year was the opportunity to remind everyone the importance of Kihon (basics) and physical strength. A party followed after the training where the &#8220;2012 New Years GENKOTSU competition&#8221; was held with the Kyokushin game application GENKOTSU. Kancho Shokei Matsui, BC&#8217;s, members and staff participated and was a great success. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"0111c.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kyokushinkaikan.org\/ja\/news\/assets_c\/2012\/01\/0111c-thumb-500x333-1716.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/> <br \/>Kancho Shokei Matsui giving the counts on stage at basic training <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"0111d.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kyokushinkaikan.org\/ja\/news\/assets_c\/2012\/01\/0111d-thumb-500x333-1720.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/> <br \/>150 members participated in this years Kagami-Biraki (traditional new year&#8217;s training) <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"0111e.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kyokushinkaikan.org\/ja\/news\/assets_c\/2012\/01\/0111e-thumb-500x333-1722.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>Strengthning after basic training <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" alt=\"0111f.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kyokushinkaikan.org\/ja\/news\/assets_c\/2012\/01\/0111f-thumb-500x333-1724.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>Kancho joins the GENKOTSU(Kyokushin game App) competition after the party<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kancho Matsui, BC&#8217;s and participants at the 2012 Kagami-Biraki (traditional new year&#8217;s training) T [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kancho Matsui, BC&#039;s and participants at the 2012 Kagami\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"kyokushin\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kyokushinkaikan.org\/en\/news\/19285\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.9.10\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ja_JP\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"I.K.O. 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